I've been listening to a lot of Wilco's latest album, A Ghost Is Born. It's currently only available as an official online stream (the album sees a proper release this summer), but I'm really digging the album.

There are some self-indulgent tracks that could stand to use a little editing -- for example, I love the riff of "Spiders (Kidsmoke)," but at over ten minutes, there's a lot of other things that you have to wade through first. I'm sure it'll grow on me the more I listen to it (much like the last album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), but it really makes for a dense listening experience in some places.

Other places, however, are simply a joy for the ears. Check out the album opener, "At Least That's What You Said." I can't help but crank the volume way up for that one. A simple piano melody, a few whispers of some lyrics -- and then the guitars kick in. Fantastic.

Oh dear. A 160-page picture book and an accompanying 40-minute CD of unreleased new music in addition to having A Ghost Is Born being released later this year? This money that I want to spend that I do not have.